Nursery-chair.



H. MILLER.

NURSERY CHAIR. APPLICATION FILED DEC.2B.

: ili- Ii IiIZ Patented July 4,1916.

HENRY MILLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN'OR F ONE-HALF T0 MORRIS I1.

MASURE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I

NURSERY-CHAIR.

1,189,377. Spaeificatirm of lletters Patent Patented July e, 1916. Application filed December 28, 1914.. ScriahNo. 879,334.

To allwhome't may concern: brackets are headed bolts ll, provided at Be it known that I, HENRY MILLER, a cititheir inner ends with pads, of rubber or zen of the United States, residing at Chi other suitable material, designed to bear cago, in the county of Cook and State of against opposite sides of the bowl 1 at points Illinois, have invented new and useful Imbelow the conventional flange thereof. provements in Nursery-Chairs, of which the In the practical use of my improvement, following is a specification. the seat 4 is placed above the bowl 1, and '18 MV present invention pertains to nursery canted to permit of the stop arms 8 being chairs; and it contemplates the provision of positioned backof the cover'3 and isthen a nursery chair constructed with a View to brought back to the horizontal position illusbeing used to advantage in conjunction with trated. Subsequently to the said manipulaa conventional water-closet bowl. tion of the seat at the bolts 11 are turned inhe invention in all of its details will be wardly to press their pads firmly against the fully understood 'from the following de bowl 1 whereupon the seat 4 will be strongly scription and claim when the same are read connectedwto and supported by the bowl 1. in connection with the drawings, accom: In this connection it w ll be noticed that the panying and forming part of this specificaarms 8 cooperating with the cover 3 will tion, in which: prevent material forward movement of the t Figure l is a front elevation, partly in sec seat 4 relative to the bowl 1; also, that the tion,-showing. one embodiment of my invenpadded bolts 11 will eiiectuall I prevent lat s tion as properly positioned on a water-closet era'l movement of the seat 4 relative to the owl. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. partly in bowl. From this it follows that it is imsection, of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevapossible to av child by twisting or moving tion illustrative of a modification. Fig. 4 is in the chair to displace the same from the a section taken in the plane indicated by the bowl 1. dVheu, however, it is desired to reline 2-2 on F ig. 3, and illustrating the armove the seat from the bowl, the same can be rangement of the legs and rounds of the readily accomplished by turning the bolts 11 modified construction. outwardly and raising the forward end of eferring by numerals to said drawings the seat to disengage the stop arms 8 from and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 the cover3 and then lifting the seat from the thereof: 1 is a stationary water-closet bowl. howl, after which the seat may be provided The said howl is'of conventional construcwith-its complement of legs and used for the tion as are also the hinged seat :2 and the purposes to which chairs are generally put. hinged cover 3. 4 is the seat ofmy novel It will be manifest from the foregoing chair. The said seat is provided at',l2,with that while I show the sockets 12 for the threaded sockets for the detachable connec connection of legs, the legs may be con:

tron of legs (not shown), the scheme of'iny nected to the seat 4 in any detachable-man- {invention contemplating the equipment" of nor compatible with the purpose of my inr the seat 4 with legs when it is removed from vention.

the bowl 1 so that the chair canbe used for *The modified chair seat at shown in Fig. general chair purposes. ixed-on the body 3 is similar to the seat 4 of Figs. 1 and 2 he a back 5, and fixed with respect to the. in that it has a fixed back 5 and arms 6 as body and back are arms 6, While 7 is a tray well as a tray 7. and in that itis equipped connected in a hinged manner with the baclz with brackets 10 havingthreaded bolts 11 5, and designed to serve the same purposes which terminate at their inner ends in pads as the ordinary trays of nursery chairs. of rubber or other suitable material. It Fixed to the seat 4 and extending rearwill also he noted that the bowl 1, seat 2 and wardly therefrom and then upwardly cover 3 of Fi 3 are similar to the correare stop arms 8 which terminate in sponding elements in Figs. 1 and 2. The plates 9 designed to bear against the rear or seat r of Fig. 3 differs from the seat 4 in upper side of the cover 3 when said cover is that it is provided with permanently atin the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Con tached front legs 13 and rear legs 14, the

nected in a fixed manner with the seat 4: at legs 13 bein connected together through 0 Q o I b points ad acent the side edges thereof are the medium of front rungs 15, and said legs rackets l0, and threaded through said 13 sing connected with the lens 14 through no rungs 15. It is to be understood, however, that no rungs are interposed between the legs 14, and from this it follows that the chair may be readily moved rearwardly to position the seat P over the bowl 1 and may as readilybe moved forwardly to detach the,

chair from the bowl and permit of the chair being used as an ordinary nursery chair.

When the chair is arranged to place the seat 4 over the bowl], it may be readilyand securely fixed in such position by turning the bolts 11 inwardly so as to. clamp their pads against cally impossible for a restless child to move the chair with respect to the bowl 1; From this it follows that to remove the chair from the bowl it is only necessary as a condition precedent to turn the bolts 11 outwardly.

. WVhen desired, it is obvious that the seat 4 of the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 may be provided with stop arms similar to the 'stop arms 8 of the seats 4 shown in'Figs. 1

opposite sides of the bowl 1, and when this is done it is practi- 4, this with a view to enabling the back 5 and tray 7 to properly hold a small child without interfering with the capacity of the apertured seat 4* and the widely separated legs 2 to rest over the bowl 1 as shown.

I would also have it understood that when desired covers may be provided for the apertures in all of the seats 4 and 4, this to convert the chairs into ordinary infant chairs.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is:

/ The herein described nursery chair, comprising a seat, means for supporting'said seat above a water-closet bowl, said means being constructed and arranged to prevent endwise movement of the seat from its position above the bowl, means carried by the seat for confining a child thereon, and an arm fixedwith respect to. the underside of the seat and extending rearwardiy beyond the rear edge of the seat and then upwardly and forwardly and terminating at its upper end in a portion constructed and arranged to bear against the rear side ofan upstand-- ing seat cover, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereoi I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

/ HENRY MILLER.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH NEW, W ILLIAM Donors. 

